At 180 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, the Falcon 9 rocket is tiny in comparison to the football-field-long Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo spacecraft into orbit.

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Later, as the Jets left the field after the 37-16 defeat, a fan offered Ryan an unflattering comparison to New England coach Bill Belichick.

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